It was extremely cold. So cold that I wasn't really thinking all that clearly. Still, I was fairly happy with the shots I managed to get. What I didn't do though was get a single shot of the entire side of the library (it's really wide) so I ended up going back the next day. While it was much warmer the next day, the conditions were very different as it was lightly snowing, there was a pretty good wind blowing and clearly, because of the the snow, there was no brilliant sky full of stars. I did get my single shot, and am fairly happy with it, I only wish I had taken it the night before when visually it was a better night for photographs.

Tim - your three shots above are quite easy to combine into a panorama. I've done so with the originals from your Flickr feed and even corrected for the distortion that results after the stitch. If you want, I can send it to you for posting....I won't post it here without your permission, of course.

Feel free to post it, I'd love to see what you have come up with. I have zero experience shooting for panoramas, or using the software to do it. I looked that those three shots and just figured that the change in perspective is just too much to try and put them together. I just recently got in on the Adobe photographer's deal and really need to learn the in's and out's of Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC now. It's been a long time since I've used Photoshop seriously, and my prior experience with Lightroom was version 3.

I used Photoshop built in stitching. The distortion correction isn't perfect...you are right that these weren't shot for a panorama, and the resulting bulging is a little uneven. I corrected it as much as possible in a reasonable amount of time (some extra time with Liquefy or other transformations could likely make it perfect given enough time), but it's halfway decent here.

Jman13 wrote:
I used Photoshop built in stitching. The distortion correction isn't perfect...you are right that these weren't shot for a panorama, and the resulting bulging is a little uneven. I corrected it as much as possible in a reasonable amount of time (some extra time with Liquefy or other transformations could likely make it perfect given enough time), but it's halfway decent here.

I had some fun tonight after my daughter had her hair super curled. Set up a quick light/softbox and had some fun. Of course, it eventually devolved into frivolity, which is just fine by me. All with the Fuji X-E2 and 55-200, except the first, which is with the Rokinon 85/1.4.

not crazy about the look myself (never seem to use mine), but should be great for narrow dof prefocused street work right? just set the focus so one part of the frame will always be in focus. then you can just frame and shoot without worrying about focus and still get a narrow dof sorta look.

Just got my XE2 on Saturday and was excited about snapping a few.I had to shoot the only thing around ...so I did a selfie. THis is with the 32mm. I went lil over the top on the PP and I chopped my hands off too haha

sebboh wrote:
not crazy about the look myself (never seem to use mine), but should be great for narrow dof prefocused street work right? just set the focus so one part of the frame will always be in focus. then you can just frame and shoot without worrying about focus and still get a narrow dof sorta look.

Yeah thats an idea, probably semi-posed stuff with a street BG. I was also thinking about dreamy sort of stills and landscapes, maybe even environmental portraits. I'll think of something